Combination hay-rack and wagon-body.



PATENTED JAN. 22, 1907.

. .N J. T. WARWICK. COMBINATION HAY RACK AND WAGON BODY.

APPLICATION FILED 00123, 1905.

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UNITED STATES JAY T. WARWICK, OF HAMILTON, OHIO.

COMBINATION HAY-RACK AND WAGON-BODY.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 22, 1907.

Application filed October 23, 1905. Seria No. 284.028.

\ To all whmn it Tnrty/ concern:

Be it known that I, JAY T. -WARWICK, a citizen of the United States,residing at Hamilton, Ohio, have invented a new and useful Improvementin Combination Hay- Racks and Wagon-Bodies, of which the fol lowing is aspecification.

My invention relates to combination hayracks and wagon-bodies; and theobject of my improvement is to provide a single bottom and side railswhereon the separable parts of either ahay-rack or of awagon-body may beremovably assembled and secured.

This object is attained in the following described manner, asillustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figures 1 and 2 areisometrical views, respectively, of a hay-rack and awagon-body embodyingmy improvement; Figs. 3 and 4, transverse vertical sections with theparts broken away on the respective lines a a and b b of Fig. 1; Fig. 5,a transverse vertical section with parts broken away on the line 6 c ofFig. 2.

In the drawings, 6 represents the heavy side rails, 7 the end piece, '8the bottom,

11, 12, 13, and 14 cross-bars, all being secured together and forming alow stone-bed adapted to fit between the standards on the bolsters of awagon.

The rear member of the hay-rack consists of cross-pieces 16 and 17, withbows 18 secured thereon. The front member consists of cross-pieces 19,21, and -22, with seatboards 23 secured thereon and withsupporting-blocks 24 and 25 secured under the respective cross-pieces 21and 22 to properly elevate the seat-boards 23 above the front wheels ofthe wagon. (Not shown.) After said rear and front members of thehay-rack are properly placed on the side rails yokes 26 serve to connectthem together by spanning the contiguous cross pieces 17 and 19. Hookedbolts 27 depend from yokes 26 between said contiguous cross-pieces anddetachably engage with hooked bolts 28, which are adjustable throughholes formed in crossbar 12. Corresponding hooked bolts 29, adjustablysecured in the remaining. cross-bars, serve to detachably engage withcorresponding hooked bolts 30 in corresponding crosspieces-of'thehay-rack, whereby they may be removably clamped on the side rails.

Rear and front ladders 31 and 32 are removably secured between the endportions of the side rails by means of sliding pivots 33,

each automatically maintained in engaged position by means of a spring34 and provided with an actuating-knob 35.

The rear and front members and ladders assembled and secured on the siderails form a complete hay-rack which may be separately removed orreplaced thereon by one person without assistance. In the absence of thehay-rack a wagon-body consisting of independent side-boards 36,tail-gate 37, and

front gate 38 may be assembled and secured on the side rails by theengagement of hooked straps 39 on the side-boards 36, with thecorresponding hooked bolts adjustable in adjacent cross-bars 12 and 13.Straps 41, secured near the end of the side-boards, overlap the siderails to prevent any lateral displacement of said side-boards thereon.

Braces 42, having one end pivotally secured at an intermediate point inrespective hooked straps 39, are each formed with a shoulder 43 and apin 44 thereunder, adapted to removably engage with an opening 45,formed in the adjacent cross-bar. The tail and front gates are removablysecured. between t-he side-boards in the usual manner by means ofclamping-rods 46.

The hooked bolts 27 and 30 in the crosspieces of the hay rack and thehooked straps 39 on the side-boards 36 are contiguous to the outside ofthe side rails. Corresponding adjustable hooked bolts 28 and 29 in thecross bars are located a sufiicient distance outwardly therefrom topermit them to pass or overlap the former to facilitate their engagementtherewith or disengagement therefrom, as shown in Figs. 4 and 5.

Having fully described my improvement, what I claim as my invention, anddesire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is

1. The combination of a' stone-bed consisting of cross-bars providedwith a bottom and with side rails adapted to rest directly on thebolsters of a wagon, a rear member of a hayrack consisting. ofcross-pieces registering with corresponding cross-bars and connectednear their ends by means of bows, a front member of a hay-rackconsisting of similar cross ieces registering with correspondingcrossars and connected neartheir ends by means of seat-boards, yokesadapted to removably secure adjacent cross-pieces of the respectivemembers together, hooked bolts depending from the yokes and from the op-Iro posite cross-pieces, and other hooked bolts adapted to respectivelyand detachably engage therewith being a'djustably secured to one side ofthe line thereof and in corresponding cross-bars.

2. The combination of a stone-bed consisting of cross-bars having siderails and a bottom secured thereon, a hay-rack consisting of front andrear members, yokes adapted to separably connect said members together,hooked bolts adapted to removably clamp said members on the side rails,and ladders provided with sliding bolts; whereby they may be removablyhinged between the respective end portions of the side rails saidladders being limited in their outward movement by contact with adjacentcross-bars of the hay-rack.

3. The combination of a stone-bed consisting of side rails and a bottomsecured on cross-bars, a hay-rack comprising two members and meansadapted to separably connect them together, the one of said membersconsisting of seat-boards secured on crosspieces, the other memberconsisting of bows secured on other cross-pieces, hooked bolts dependingfrom the cross-pieces of both members, a wagon-body consisting ofindependent side-boards and front and tail gates, means for removablysecuring the said parts of the wagon-body together, hooked boltsdepending from the said side-boards, and a series of hookedclamping-bolts adjustably secured in said cross-bars and adapted todetachably engage with the corresponding hooked bolts depending from thecross-pieces or from the side-boards, whereby, said hayrack or saidwagon-body may be removably secured on the stone-bed.

JAY T. WARWICK. Witnesses:

CLARENCE MURPHY, R. S. CARR.

